I have a FreeBSD server that I'm trying to get FTP working on. If I disable pf everything works great.

If I connect while pf is running I can login successfully-but as soon as I run an ls I get this:

ftp> ls
229 Entering Extended Passive Mode (|||61162|)

And then nothing..finally I get this:
421 Service not available, remote server timed out. Connection closed

I'm copying my pf.conf file below if anyone can help me out I'd be floored!

### macro name for external interface.
ext_if = "re0"
allowed_icmp_types = "echoreq"
### all incoming traffic on external interface is normalized and fragmented
### packets are reassembled.
scrub in on $ext_if all fragment reassemble
### FTP Proxy stuff
nat-anchor "ftp-proxy/*"
rdr-anchor "ftp-proxy/*"
rdr pass proto tcp from any to any port ftp -> 127.0.0.1 port 8021
### set a default deny everything policy.
block log all
### exercise antispoofing on the external interface, but add the local
### loopback interface as an exception, to prevent services utilizing the
### local loop from being blocked accidentally.
set skip on lo0
antispoof for $ext_if inet
### block anything coming from sources that we have no back routes for.
block in log from no-route to any
### block packets that fail a reverse path check. we look up the routing
### table, check to make sure that the outbound is the same as the source
### it came in on. if not, it is probably source address spoofed.
#block in from urpf-failed to any
### drop broadcast requests quietly.
block in quick on $ext_if from any to 255.255.255.255
### block packets claiming to come from reserved internal address blocks, as
### they are obviously forged and cannot be contacted from the outside world.
block in log quick on $ext_if from { 10.0.0.0/8, 172.16.0.0/12, 192.168.0.0/16, 255.255.255.255/32 } to any
### block probes that can possibly determine our operating system by disallowing
### certain combinations that are commonly used by nmap, queso and xprobe2, who
### are attempting to fingerprint the server.
### * F : FIN - Finish; end of session
### * S : SYN - Synchronize; indicates request to start session
### * R : RST - Reset; drop a connection
### * P : PUSH - Push; packet is sent immediately
### * A : ACK - Acknowledgement
### * U : URG - Urgent
### * E : ECE - Explicit Congestion Notification Echo
### * W : CWR - Congestion Window Reduced
block in log quick on $ext_if proto tcp flags FUP/WEUAPRSF
block in log quick on $ext_if proto tcp flags WEUAPRSF/WEUAPRSF
block in log quick on $ext_if proto tcp flags SRAFU/WEUAPRSF
block in log quick on $ext_if proto tcp flags /WEUAPRSF
block in log quick on $ext_if proto tcp flags SR/SR
block in log quick on $ext_if proto tcp flags SF/SF
### keep state on any outbound tcp, udp or icmp traffic. modulate the isn of
### outgoing packets. (initial sequence number) broken operating systems
### sometimes don't randomize this number, making it guessable.
pass out on $ext_if proto { tcp, udp, icmp } from any to any modulate state
### normally, a client connects to the server and we handshake with them, then
### proceed to exchange data. by telling pf to handshake proxy between the client
### and our server, tcp syn flood attacts from ddos become uneffective because
### a spoofed client cannot complete a handshake.
### set a rule that allows inbound ssh traffic with synproxy handshaking.
pass in on $ext_if proto tcp from any to any port ssh flags S/SA synproxy state
### set a rule that allows inbound www traffic with synproxy handshaking.
pass in on $ext_if proto tcp from any to any port www flags S/SA synproxy state
# Allow icmp
pass in log quick inet proto icmp all icmp-type $allowed_icmp_types keep state
### lets try this
#pass in on $ext_if proto tcp from any to any port ftp flags S/SA synproxy state
pass in on $ext_if inet proto tcp from port ftp-data to ($ext_if) user proxy flags S/SA keep state
### NTP allowed
pass in on $ext_if proto tcp from any to any port ntp
pass in on $ext_if proto udp from any to any port ntp
pass out on $ext_if proto tcp to any port ntp
pass out on $ext_if proto udp to any port ntp
### FTP Passive BS
###pass in quick on $ext_if proto tcp from any to any port 30000:60000
pass in on $ext_if proto tcp from any to any port 21 keep state
#pass in on $ext_if proto tcp from any to any port > 49151 keep state
### FTP Outgoing Proxy Stuff
anchor "ftp-proxy/*"
### setup a table and ruleset that prevents excessive abuse by hosts
### that attempt to brute force the ssh daemon with repeated requests.
### any host that hammers more than 3 connections in 5 seconds gets
### all their packet states killed and dropped into a blackhole table.
table <ssh_abuse> persist
block in quick from <ssh_abuse>
pass in on $ext_if proto tcp to any port ssh flags S/SA keep state (max-src-conn 10, max-src-conn-rate 3/5, overload <ssh_abuse> flush)

2 Answers
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To cover the obvious - you are running the ftp-proxy daemon, and your securelevel is <= 1, right? (see also the ftp-proxy(8) manpage which is probably more helpful than I will be - FTP and I don't get along)

In my experience FTP is horribly broken behind any halfway decent firewall -- typically I give up and allow all outbound traffic (& stateful return traffic) from the limited number of hosts that need to do FTP which usually skirts the problem nicely...